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Edited by Rose Mary Allen and Sruti Bala, this comprehensive handbook of gender studies scholarship on the Dutch Caribbean islands thematically covers the history of movements for gender equality; the relation of gender to race, colonialism, sexuality; and the arts and popular culture. The handbook offers unparalleled insights into a century of debates around gender from the six islands of the Dutch Caribbean (Curaçao, Bonaire, Aruba, St. Maarten, St. Eustatius and Saba).
This handbook makes gender studies in the Dutch Caribbean accessible to an international readership. Besides key academic writings, it includes primary historical sources, translations from Papiamento and Dutch, as well as personal memoirs and poetry.
This handbook makes gender studies in the Dutch Caribbean accessible to an international readership. Besides key academic writings, it includes primary historical sources, translations from Papiamento and Dutch, as well as personal memoirs and poetry.
Price: $178.00
Pages: 574
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Handbooks in Caribbean Studies
Publication Date:
01 May 2024
ISBN: 9789004690875
Format: Hardcover
Rose Mary Allen is Extraordinary Professor in the field of Culture, Community and History at the University of Curaçao Dr. Moises da Costa Gomez and a pioneer of oral history research. Her recent publications include a co-edited volume on the history and legacies of Dutch colonial slavery history, Staat en slavernij: het Nederlandse koloniale slavernijverleden en zijn doorwerkingen (State and slavery: Dutch colonial slavery history and its repercussions) (Athenaeum Publishers, 2023).
Sruti Bala is associate professor in theater and performance studies at the University of Amsterdam. Her publications include 'The Gestures of Participatory Art' (2018) and the co-edited volume, The Global Trajectories of Queerness: Re-thinking Same-Sex Politics in the Global South, (Brill/Rodopi, 2015).
Sruti Bala is associate professor in theater and performance studies at the University of Amsterdam. Her publications include 'The Gestures of Participatory Art' (2018) and the co-edited volume, The Global Trajectories of Queerness: Re-thinking Same-Sex Politics in the Global South, (Brill/Rodopi, 2015).